Shkodër spits on Nano
The people of Shkodër greeted Fatos Nano with boos and threw slogans against the government. Nano entered Shkodër in a car with private license plates. Zogaj swallows Nano’s and Medianti’s spit. Hundreds of police officers and special forces guard the Prime Minister and the President
December 8 - once again calls us to protest against dictatorship
Yesterday, the opposition commemorated 8 December. Albanians again faced the challenge of dictatorship
Shkodër spits on Nano
The people of Shkodër greeted Fatos Nano with cheers and threw slogans against the government. Nano entered Shkodër in a car with private license plates. Zogaj swallows Nano’s and Medianti’s spit. Hundreds of police officers and special forces guard the Prime Minister and the President
December 8 - calls us again
to protest against dictatorship
From yesterday’s commemoration of 8 December at the International Cultural Center
Albanians once again faced
the challenge of dictatorship after seven
years, when they rose up to
bring down the most bloodthirsty com-
munist regime, the cause of all the
ills this century has brought. Our
country seems to be going
blindly toward an end, an
endlessness that no one can pre-
dict. At least that is how things seem
to be in the wake of the latest events.
This gloomy picture of silence, of
moral decline and the path of shame that the coun-
try is following, has left so few Albanians who,
as soon as the name of 8 Decem-
ber is mentioned, even laugh at it.
This of course can in no way absolve
those who swore they would make Albania
like the rest of Europe. Or, more precisely,
those who made such promises and statements
and did not fulfill them. Never-
theless, Albanians seem not for a single
moment to have forgotten 8 Decem-
ber, the historic date on which they
decided to rise up against a nearly
50-year monist state in order to carry out
the most civilizing and democra-
tic act, the transition from dictatorship to freedom and
the rule of law.
December 8, 1992, the 8th anniversary of the heavy burden on the Albanian people where the road to freedom and democracy began, also invited Albanians yesterday to a manifestation at the International Center of Culture, where thousands of citizens, students and professors, family members of the hero of democracy Azem Hajdari, as well as former political prisoners, representatives of associations, political parties and trade unions, took part in an event in which it was acknowledged that Albania is heading toward tyranny and civil confrontation.
Among the greetings applauded with ovations by hundreds of participants were those of the chairman of the PD, Dr. Sali Berisha, the chairwoman of the LDK, Ms. Nekibe Kelmendi, the secretary general of the PDSH, Mr. Maksim Cikuli, the chairman of the Association of Former Political Prisoners, Mr. Kurt Kola, journalist Fatos Lubonja, writer Visar Zhiti, as well as the survivor of communist prisons, Mr. Pjetër Arbnori. Everyone spoke about the grave situation in which the country finds itself, about the violation of laws by the current government, about the pressure exerted on the media and independent institutions, about the incapacity of governance, and as we approached the 7th anniversary of the toppling of the statue of Enver Hoxha, which they considered symbolic of the return to Albania of the totalitarian past and of reflection.
Amid the chants “Down with the government” and “Nano, go away,” the chairman of the PD, Dr. Berisha, stated that these chants resemble the voices of hundreds and hundreds of Albanians who view these events with sadness, and are not only the fans and those intoxicated by the repressive state. “Albania hears the song of freedom tonight,” Dr. Berisha said. “Today in this hall is the heart of Albania, because here are the burning hearts that can save Albania. Only free people have the courage and sacrifice needed to save it,” said the chairman of the PD.
He said that “the regime of Fatos Nano is a different regime from the one we knew in the first 24 hours of its appearance as tolerant. In the last weeks and months, the regime of Fatos Nano is becoming a system without law, without justice, a regime of violence and fear.” Berisha also said, among other things, that “as yesterday, so today, Albania needs pluralism and democracy. Students today, united with professors, intellectuals, lecturers, and different strata of Albanian society, are determined to confront at any cost a regime that governs with violence, force and the vote of traffickers.”
After Dr. Berisha’s speech, a documentary on the student uprising of December 1990 was screened briefly, followed by the film “The First Night of Freedom.” The concert organized with the participation of many singers was interrupted for a few minutes by a power outage in the hall, but quickly resumed. While the incident that occurred in the evening inflamed passions, serving as an excuse not to attend the celebrations of the 7th anniversary of the toppling of the statue, Prime Minister Nano himself preferred to shut himself in his room at the “Rozafa” hotel, while citizens whistled at him and followed the car in which he was moving through the city streets. According to our correspondent, the people of Shkodër had become one with Nano, throwing spit and tomatoes at his private car. Angered by his rule, the use of violence, force and weapons against protesters and against the people of Shkodër themselves, hundreds of people blocked his path and also threw powerful slogans against him. Nano’s only escort at that moment was the SHIK service. Sali Berisha, during the commemorative rally of 8 December at the International Cultural Center, said that the people of Shkodër were protesting against the government and against the criminal Nano. Meanwhile, the evening news on TVSH gave the report that the Prime Minister and Mr. Medianti had walked on foot for two hours in the city streets, but in fact it seems that many people from Shkodër had spat on and booed Nano, as confirmed by the indisputable sources of our newspaper. State television also carried the statement of a public figure named Bardhyl Zogaj, who with his usual concerned hyperbole told us that he had heard with his own ears the slogans of the citizens of Shkodër, who were chanting “Nano-Shkodër” and “Nano-Albania.” If one knows even a little of the wise people of Shkodër, such acrobatics can only be uttered by a pimp.
The citizens of Shkodër not only booed and cursed Nano, but with all their anger for P[?]-D[?] they turned it against the innocent citizens of the PP.
The police tried to move the mattress-like force over the innocent citizens
Three PP activists brutally beaten
The shorn Bardhyli with a cap over the prominent dignitaries
ON PAGE 4
At least by 100 points its value fell on the foreign exchange market
The dollar buries the lek
within 24 hours
Severe and massive government failures. In the long term, it failed to stop the citizen's destruction and the financial crisis.
ON PAGE 5
Chairman of Parliament
Palo: Gjinushi,
Hakli Qamili dressed
in a tie
As announced in a statement by the Christian Democratic Party, the Speaker of Parliament, Skënder Gjinushi, is a modern Qamili, who plays the old profession of politics in this century and is being deliberately used by the left wing to destroy the institution of parliament.
ON PAGE 4
Gjinushi: Obey!
Otherwise, we will dissolve you
We are still in a constitutional end to be re-established with the Constitutional Council
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From yesterday’s commemoration of 8 December at the International Center of Culture